Deputy PG faces new charge of drunken driving

A SENIOR staff member from the Office of the Prosecutor General, Deputy Prosecutor General Jackson Kuutondokwa, is again under investigation for alleged drunken driving – less than four months after he was sentenced in the High Court for a similar offence.

Kuutondokwa is alleged to have crashed his vehicle into an electricity transformer in Wanaheda in Windhoek at about 11h25 on Sunday, Police spokesperson Chief Inspector Angula Amulungu reported yesterday. According to Amulungu, the accident has led to a charge of drunken driving being investigated against Kuutondokwa.Other sources claimed yesterday that when Kuutondokwa was asked to go through a breathalyser test to determine his blood alcohol level, it was found that he was substantially over the legal limit of 0,37 milligrammes of alcohol per litre of breath.According to Amulungu, the Police were set to take a statement on the incident from Kuutondokwa yesterday, whereafter the case was to be sent to the Office of the Prosecutor General to decide whether Kuutondokwa would be charged.The incident took place only two and a half weeks after Kuutondokwa’s driver’s licence had been handed back to him after it had been suspended for three months after he was sentenced for driving under the influence of liquor.In his High Court case, Kuutondokwa had pleaded guilty to having driven while under the influence of liquor on December 8 2002.He was sentenced to a fine of N$5 000 or twelve months imprisonment, of which N$2 500 or six months were suspended for three years on condition he was not convicted of a similar offence committed during the period of suspension.Kuutondokwa is based at the Windhoek Magistrate’s Court in Katutura.According to Amulungu, the accident has led to a charge of drunken driving being investigated against Kuutondokwa.Other sources claimed yesterday that when Kuutondokwa was asked to go through a breathalyser test to determine his blood alcohol level, it was found that he was substantially over the legal limit of 0,37 milligrammes of alcohol per litre of breath.According to Amulungu, the Police were set to take a statement on the incident from Kuutondokwa yesterday, whereafter the case was to be sent to the Office of the Prosecutor General to decide whether Kuutondokwa would be charged.The incident took place only two and a half weeks after Kuutondokwa’s driver’s licence had been handed back to him after it had been suspended for three months after he was sentenced for driving under the influence of liquor.In his High Court case, Kuutondokwa had pleaded guilty to having driven while under the influence of liquor on December 8 2002.He was sentenced to a fine of N$5 000 or twelve months imprisonment, of which N$2 500 or six months were suspended for three years on condition he was not convicted of a similar offence committed during the period of suspension.Kuutondokwa is based at the Windhoek Magistrate’s Court in Katutura.